Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin comprehēnsiōn- (stem of comprehēnsiō), equivalent to comprehēns(us) (past participle of comprehendere to comprehend) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

mis·com·pre·hen·sion, noun

non·com·pre·hen·sion, noun

pre·com·pre·hen·sion, noun

su·per·com·pre·hen·sion, noun

un·com·pre·hen·sion, noun

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Comprehension is always a great word to know.

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the inner sense of what is right or wrong which leads one's thoughts and actions

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The instruction is not superior for teaching skills and comprehension.

It is followed the next day by a written comprehension test.

The more links in a piece of writing, the bigger the hit on comprehension.

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The instruction is not superior for teaching skills and comprehension.

It is followed the next day by a written comprehension test.

The more links in a piece of writing, the bigger the hit on comprehension.

It is tomorrow's comprehension of life and of its evolution.

His pieces move with blazing speed, at times at the limits of comprehension.

Speed-reading courses preach a form of skimming that doesn't help comprehension or retention.

Children in the treatment group also posted bigger gains in listening and comprehension skills.

Until students have a firm comprehension of all those aspects, such projects shouldn't be planned.

So the current level of mutual comprehension would deteriorate hugely.

The study of cosmic evolution concerns and affects the study and comprehension of each and every subject in the universe.

To even get a glimmer of the mirror effect in life is beyond normal comprehension.

The net result is reading with full comprehension while freeing half or more of your reading time.

Obviously engineering programs don't require reading comprehension skills.

Why on earth people would want to keep alive an animal that would kill them and eat them is beyond my comprehension.

Therefore, physicists have devised clever but devilishly difficult mathematical methods to extract comprehension from the chaos.

But for me this drug led to high performance in memory-retention tests and comprehension.

Some extra features in a textbook do seem to make a difference in student comprehension.

For the governed, they need to have the minimal reasoning and comprehension abilities, in addition to basic language literary.

One way to approach these questions is to look at language comprehension in children.

The interior opulence is almost beyond comprehension.

But her comprehension of what drives him is limited.

There are several varieties of pointing, and this is important for understanding why dogs' comprehension of the gesture matters.

Heimdall, yes your reading comprehension is failing.

Older test takers are equally capable of other tasks that do not depend on speed, such as language comprehension and processing.

Then too there is a tremendous literacy and reading comprehension problem nationwide in public schools.

In doing so, it is helping in the comprehension of the public reader and of the potential consumers of the products announced.

Perhaps you should read it aloud for better comprehension.

I've noticed that comprehension also seems to be easier when reading by phrases.

Reading comprehension also raises the level of discourse.

It's great to see that neuroscience research is starting to prove the relation between gestures and comprehension.

Read my work with comprehension and think it through.

With this broader comprehension it becomes apparent that there is a great deal that can be done to address these challenges.

Science should adjust its vision, comprehension and concepts.

These skills may also help the learning disabled improve speech comprehension.

He has a complete comprehension of animated nature, of woodcraft, and of how changes in the.

Recent research demonstrates how effectively and efficiently writing can improve comprehension of content in any discipline.

Ask questions about sentences you read to check comprehension and encourage expression.

The feelings of patriotism are high in all hearts and there ought to be a ready comprehension of those.

As students read, encourage them to boost their comprehension by asking questions and looking for answers in the text.

Early experiments show that lucid dreamers have a good comprehension of time while dreaming.

With each dumbfounded stare, there are a few nods of comprehension.

Done well, each can be effective at testing student comprehension.

How this is done is quite beyond the comprehension of a quill-pen journalist.

Use the student-created flashcards to check students' comprehension of what each tool is and how it measures weather conditions.

Gwenn, a genuine comprehension of the emotional longings of the old.

Maybe an untimed homework exercise testing reading comprehension would be a more effective approach than the timed quizzes.

During the video, pause wherever appropriate to check students' comprehension.

As comprehension of the stakes has grown, though, a market has emerged for a more sensible alternative.

It is beyond comprehension why, in a presumably civilized country, in the modern era.

Students will practice monitoring their comprehension by restating the writer's main ideas in their own words.

Either your reading skills or comprehension are lacking.

But if your comprehension of stem-cell research doesn't go beyond that, you're not alone.

The findings indicate that recognition of these sounds is the first step in the comprehension of spoken language.

The bottom line is that those who show comprehension of the topic but miss the context here and there can be accommodated.

T7 will help students set a purpose for reading and monitor their comprehension as they read.

And still another would be a comprehension of the event's significance from a philosophical, cultural or juridical point of view.

Applauding the fact that state will be providing the nurseries is beyond my comprehension.

Understanding birds from the perspective of their different families adds much to my comprehension of our feathered.

Detection is instantanious but comprehension of sound detail may take some time while the brain remaps the sounds.

Of course, that explanation was probably taxing the comprehension limits of most.

Wiencek examines the first president's own dawning comprehension of what slavery entailed.

However the absolute shortsightedness and stupidity of this particular development is beyond comprehension.

The studies also called into question basic writing abilities, as well as students' comprehension of science and mathematics.

Critical thinking is sterile without the capacity for empathy and comprehension that stretches the self.

The scale of the effort is almost beyond comprehension.

Everyone benefitted: comprehension of business and economics related material improved.

In one, the investigators are generally up against creatures and forces beyond human comprehension or influence.

Those with advanced language comprehension are better able to extract verbal information from their environment.

But also because his conversation was at an intellectual level miles above our comprehension abilities as.

Bev, you may want to brush up on your reading comprehension skills.

He came back strong at the end, a feat of memorization and tune over comprehension.

Success is in large part dependent on the comprehension and observance of entrenched protocols.

How anyone could watch him working with these animals and and dare to say anything negative is beyond my comprehension.

Bergman in this virtually surrealist exercise is to get at a comprehension of the feelings and the.

Certainly no one who reads the papers with a fairly retentive eye can have any less comprehension of the gambling racket than is.

Children with language disorders have trouble with grammar, syntax and comprehension.

The predictive failure is with your expectations and comprehension.

He's right that studying the humanities is about more than reading comprehension and memo writing.

Students will read an article related to an art museum, focusing on their comprehension skills.

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World English Dictionary

comprehension (ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnʃən)

—n
1.	the act or capacity of understanding
2.	the state of including or comprising something; comprehensiveness
3.	education an exercise consisting of a previously unseen passage of text with related questions, designed to test a student's understanding esp of a foreign language
4.	obsolete logic the attributes implied by a given concept or term; connotation

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Word Origin & History

comprehension

1540s, from L. comprehensionem "a seizing," noun of action from comprehendere (see comprehend). In reading education, from 1921.

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Medical Dictionary

comprehension com·pre·hen·sion (kŏm'prĭ-hěn'shən)
n.
See apperception.

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